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Jason Nassour
stated on February 18, 2016 a Facebook post:

Says Travis County Commissioner Gerald Daugherty "claims to have taken a pay cut, but for 2016, he voted to raise his salary by 19.6 percent."

Mostly False

By Rachel Rice • February 27, 2016

Blake Rocap
stated on February 16, 2016 a voter mailer:

"When Republican extremists tried to take away abortion rights … Blake Rocap stopped them."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2016

Huey Rey Fischer
stated on February 8, 2016 a press release:

"There isn’t a single (Texas) legislator under the age of 30, even though millennials make up 25 percent of the electorate in Texas."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • February 27, 2016

Empower Texans
stated on January 28, 2016 a web page:

In 2005 and 2007, " Joe Straus received a 100 percent rating by NARAL (the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League)."

Mostly False

By Filipa Ioannou • February 18, 2016

Gary Cobb
stated on February 16, 2016 a video ad on his campaign website:

Travis County residents "trusted me to take on Tom DeLay — and we won."

Mostly False

By W. Gardner Selby • February 17, 2016

Sheri Gallo
stated on January 28, 2016 an Austin City Council meeting:

Since January 2015, the "majority of our" Austin City Council "meetings have extended past 10 p.m." and "many of our meetings have gone past midnight."

Mostly False

By Mary Huber • February 15, 2016

Jonathan Stickland
stated on February 10, 2016 a TV ad:

Scott Fisher "tried to expand Obamacare in Texas and even voted for an official resolution to force 1 million Texans into Obamacare."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • February 12, 2016

Greg Abbott
stated on January 8, 2016 a 90-page manifesto decrying federal overreach:

"While states used to have regulatory power over fishing, federal law now regulates down to the tenth of the inch the minimum size of fish that anglers can keep."

Pants on Fire!

By Dylan Baddour • February 10, 2016

Adrian Garcia
stated on February 5, 2016 a campaign news release:

"Gene Green is the NRA’s favorite Democrat in Congress. ... "It’s no wonder the congressman has a lifetime A rating from the NRA."

Mostly False

By Emma Hinchliffe • February 5, 2016

Sheila Jackson Lee
stated on December 18, 2015 remarks inserted into the Congressional Record:

"Between 1990 and 2013, the maternal mortality rate for women in the U.S. has increased by 136%."

Mostly False

By Fauzeya Rahman • February 1, 2016

Joe Straus
stated on December 15, 2015 campaign video:

"Texas is growing twice as fast as the rest of the country."

True

By Eleanor Dearman • January 30, 2016

Paul Saldaña
stated on January 13, 2016 a civic summit hosted by Austin's KLRU-TV:

A Texas law requires every high school to have a voter registrar "and part of their responsibility is to make sure that when children become 18 and become eligible to vote, that they vote."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 29, 2016

Marco Rubio
stated on January 14, 2016 Republican presidential debate in North Charleston, S.C.:

Under Ted Cruz’s tax plan, "businesses will now have to pay 16 percent on the money they make. They will also have to pay 16 percent on the money they pay their employees."

Mostly True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016

Glenn Beck
stated on January 23, 2016 an appearance in Ankeny, Iowa:

"In 40 years of broadcast, I have never endorsed any candidate."

True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 26, 2016

Jeff Judson
stated on December 15, 2015 Conservatives in Action blog post:

Texas has the sixth-highest property taxes in the nation.

Mostly True

By Filipa Ioannou • January 22, 2016

Ted Cruz
stated on January 21, 2016 a New Hampshire appearance:

"Blue Cross Blue Shield cancelled all their individual (health care) policies in the state of Texas, effective Dec. 31."

Pants on Fire!

By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016

Roger Williams
stated on January 12, 2016 response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address:

Under Barack Obama, "the fewest number of adults are working since Jimmy Carter’s presidency."

False

By W. Gardner Selby • January 22, 2016

Wendy Davis
stated on January 4, 2016 a legal brief:

"One in every three women has an abortion during her lifetime."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 19, 2016

Jeb Bush
stated on December 28, 2015 remarks at a Florida campaign stop:

"In Houston, Texas, today, there are no homeless veterans."

Mostly False

By Emma Hinchliffe • January 15, 2016

Dan Patrick
stated on January 3, 2016 an interview on Meet the Press:

Every "one of the mass shootings except two in America since 1950 have been" in "gun-free zones."

Half-True

By W. Gardner Selby • January 13, 2016

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